Surviving
SSD sudden power loss - this article surveys SSD power down management
across all the SSD architecture types in the market today. Power cycling
induced faults kill more SSDs in real life than endurance ever did. But SSD
PSU management topology is rarely mentioned in most SSD datasheets..

the problem
with Write IOPS in flash SSDs - this classic article helps you understand
why all SSD benchmarks incorrectly suggest you're going to get much higher
performance from some types of flash SSDs than you will see in your
application.. .

"That whole
dominant storage architecture thing has totally flipped. It was already slowly
turning 180 degrees a couple years ago, but it is beginning to be much more
obvious now. SAN is on the decline..."